The Power of Windmill

Klampenborg and Vedbaek, just 20minutes drive from Copenhagen, for example have wide strips of clean, yellow sand backing onto woodlands, which are perfect for picnics and bike riders. The area is quiet affluent. Dowager Empress Marie Deodorovana lived out her last days here after her fall and murder of her son Tsar Nicholas II. or if you,d prefer, carry on up the coast beyond Helsingor ( Hamlet’s famous castle) for other little treats. The largest and traditionally most popular beaches lie between Skagen at the northern tip of Jutland and Romo on the West Jutland coast, while East Jutland is growing in popularity.

Looking inwards, to the rest of Denmark’s landscape, the land is dotted with windmills. Denmark is a world leading producer of windmills, but with other purposes in mind. For example a windmill farm is conveniently located nest to a coal powered power plant at Avedore South of Copenhagen, and basically symbolizes the wish to produce the needed energy through “natural” means such as windmill power, rather than through burning coal and releasing carbon dioxide, CO2.

When sailing to or from Copenhagen, or when landing at Copenhagen Airport, you may very well be greeted by the sea windmill farm with 20 windmills just outside Copenhagen Harbor at the shallow area of Middlegrunden . Each windmill has a height of 64 meters and a rotor diameter of 76meters. Each turbine has capacity of 2Mw. The power generated is used to supply Copenhagen with environmentally friendly electricity. It is this forward thinking and investment in alternate methods of producing power that puts Denmark at the fore in terms of windmill technology.